A former Soviet aircraft carrier burned in a waterway near Shanghai over the weekend, the latest setback for the decommissioned warship since its conversion into a Chinese tourist attraction.
The carrier Minsk, which has been anchored for the past eight years in a lagoon near the Yangtze River in Nantong, Jiangsu province, caught fire during renovations for it to become part of a military theme park, state-run China National Radio reported Saturday. The blaze broke out Friday afternoon and was extinguished about 24 hours later, the report said.
Conventionally powered and with a displacement of about 42,000 tons – less than half that of a US Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier – the 896-feet ship could carry a dozen fighter jets and an equal number of helicopters. Built at a shipyard in what is now Ukraine and named after what is now the capital of Belarus, it served in the Soviet Pacific Fleet after its commissioning in 1978 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, when it became property of the Russian Navy.
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